Stories from Pitt Global
Learn more about the global experiences happening at Pitt and the stories that make Pitt Global a unique place to learn, work, and explore the world.
Pitt women’s basketball alumna Marcedes Walker doesn’t know how she’ll feel when she first steps onto the Olympic 3x3 courts in Paris.
“Oh, that goes beyond nerves,” Walker said. “It still hasn’t hit me yet.”
When Walker takes the floor for Team...
This technically won’t be the first Olympic Games for Christie-Lee Coad, a Thomas Jefferson High School product who earned her master’s degree in sports medicine at Pitt.
Now the co-head athletic trainer for USA Track & Field, Coad traveled to...
If you had asked Nigeria women’s national coach Randy Waldrum back when he took over if he’d be coaching in the Olympics just four years later, he would’ve told you no.
But that’s the reality for the Pitt women’s soccer coach, as his team is one of...
With the 2024 Summer Olympics about to begin in Paris, the schools of the health sciences are proud to have multiple connections supporting Team USA.
Rory Cooper, Distinguished Professor of Rehabilitation Science and Technology in the School of...
A Pitt Honors Student was Selected for the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals
Alanna Howe, a sophomore in Pitt’s David C. Frederick Honors College, has been selected for the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals. The program is a partnership between the U.S. Congress and the German Parliament. The program...
In the summer of 2023, about seven Frederick Honors College students found themselves trekking across a vast southern Wyoming prairie, ostensibly staging a search for artifacts remaining from a 19th century transcontinental railroad. Their...
Pitt is in the top 50 universities in global research and has risen to No. 8 for U.S. public universities, according to the U.S. News and World Report’s 2024 Best Global University Rankings. Pitt also ranked in 33 of the 51 subject areas covered by...
Ahead of Independence Day, you can get a closer look at how English colonists lived before the founding of the United States of America with a tour of Pitt’s Early American Room.
Located on the third floor of the Cathedral of Learning, it’s one of...
In Kazakhstan’s capital, Astana, there is now a medical school offering a fully accredited four-year medical program with a U.S.-based curriculum, thanks to a longstanding partnership with the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. It is the...
Pitt was 50th in the 2024-25 U.S. News & World Report Best Global Universities rankings.
This is the 10th annual global rankings by U.S. News. The overall ranking encompasses 2,250 institutions, up from 2,000 in the last ranking, spread across...
The University of Pittsburgh signed a cooperation agreement alongside the National Central Library (NCL) of Taiwan on Monday, June 24, 2024, as part of the Taiwan Resource Collaboration for Chinese Studies (TRCCS). The agreement allows the...
Cho-yun Hsu, university professor emeritus of history and sociology in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences with a longstanding relationship to the Asian Studies Center, was awarded the prestigious Tang Prize in Sinology today. In his...